XVI.--I am Asked to Express Myself Freely on America--I Meet Mrs. Blank and for the First Time Hear of Mr. Blank--Beacon Street Society--The Boston Clubs, 149 XVII.--A Lively Sunday in Boston--Lecture in the Boston Theater-- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes--The Booth-Modjeska Combination, 156 XVIII--St. Johnsbury--The State of Maine--New England Self-control--Cold Climates and Frigid Audiences--Where is the Audience?--All Drunk!--A Reminiscence of a Scotch Audience on a Saturday Night, 163 XIX.--A Lovely Ride to Canada--Quebec, a Corner of Old France Strayed up and Lost in the Snow--The French Canadians--The Parties in Canada--Will the Canadians become Yankees? 172 XX.--Montreal--The City--Mount Royal--Canadian Sports--Ottawa-- The Government--Rideau Hall, 182 XXI.--Toronto--The City--The Ladies--The Sports--Strange Contrasts--The Canadian Schools, 191 XXII.--West Canada--Relations between British and Indians--Return to the United States--Difficulties in the Way--Encounter American Custom-House Officer, 196 XXIII.--Chicago (First Visit)--The "Neighborhood" of Chicago--The with an History of Chicago--Public Servants--A Very Deaf Man, 203 XXIV.--St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Sister Cities--Rivalries and Jealousies between Large American Cities--Minnehaha Falls--Wonderful Interviewers--My Hat gets into Trouble Again--Electricity in the Air--Forest Advertisements-- Railway Speed in America, 214 XXV.--Detroit--The Town--The Detroit "Free Press"--A Lady Interviewer--The "Unco Guid" in Detroit--Reflections on the Anglo-Saxon "Unco Guid," 222 XXVI.--Milwaukee--A Well-filled Day--Reflections on the Scotch in America--Chicago Criticisms, 236 XXVII.--The Monotony of Traveling in the States--"Manon Lescaut" in America, 244 XXVIII.--For the First Time I See an American Paper Abuse Me-- Albany to New York--A Lecture at Daly's Theater--Afternoon Audiences, 248 XXIX.--Wanderings Through New York--Lecture at the Harmonie Club-- Visit to the Century Club, 255 XXX.--Visit to the Brooklyn Academy of Music--Rev. Dr. Talmage, 257 XXXI.--Virginia--The Hotels--The South--I will Kill a Railway Conductor before I Leave America--Philadelphia--Impressions of the Old City, 263